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Some of the difficulty has to do with the process of porting SMB3 levels to NSMB - NSMB actually has less levels than SMB3 does, so the creator had to merge multiple SMB3 levels in to one big long stage separated by warp pipes. What I’m trying to get at here is that NSMB3 not only deviates from the original SMB3 designs, but it also cranks the difficulty up to unnecessary levels. The original Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox is widely considered to be a “hard game”, but it’s only difficult because it punishes you for not playing carefully and intelligently. That would be fine - even the hardest games can be smartly balanced so that they are difficult without being cheap.

It just so happened that in addition to wanting to port SMB3, the creator of NSMB3 also wanted something that was most definitely not easy. A lot of people wanted more challenge out of that kind of game (I was one), so it only made sense that somebody would take up the quest to make something a bit more rugged. had the unfortunate distinction of also being kind of too easy. Given that a rom hacker may have in fact mastered the game in question, and that “challenge” becomes something that is impossible for a normal human being to complete, let alone sometimes even comprehend. This naturally breeds an environment where rom hacks have unnecessarily obtuse difficulty for no other reason than the guy making it wanted something challenging to play.

To hack a game, you need to have incredible passion for the game in question and a rather intimate familiarity with its inner-workings.

This is generally because of something you could call “rom hack difficulty”. Part of the reason I never really got too deep in to the rom hacking scene is because a lot of the rom hacks out there, to be frank, aren’t very good. A smart designer would be able to design around these limitations, but unfortunately for NSMB3, it’s just another rom hack. 3 to its portable retro-throwback progenitor, but most immediately you’ll notice that creates a problem wherein NSMB does not support all of the features of SMB3, creating level incompatibility. It attempts to port over the whole of Super Mario Bros.